Franny Choi and Toya Wolfe

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VIRTUALLY | Franny Choi and Toya Wolfe will read as part of the Writers Reading series. 

Franny Choi is a queer, Korean American writer who works at the intersections of race, gender, technology, history, and the speculative imagination. They are the author of three books: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On (Ecco, 2022), Soft Science (Alice James Books, 2019), and Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing, 2014). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, the Nation, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University, the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s Elgin Award, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. In 2016, Choi founded Brew & Forge, a project to build connections between writers and movement workers. They are currently at work on an essay collection about race, feminism, and robots. Choi joined the Bennington faculty in Fall 2022.

Toya Wolfe grew up in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago’s South Side. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. Her writing has appeared in African Voices, Chicago Journal, Chicago Reader, Hair Trigger 27, and WarpLand. She is the recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston-Bessie Head Fiction Award, the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Short Story Competition, and the Betty Shifflet/John Schultz Short Story Award. She currently resides in Chicagoland. Last Summer on State Street is her debut novel.